US Airstrikes in Syria Badly Damaging Civilian Economy

The US war on ISIS in Syria, when it hasn’t centered on the offensive near Kobani, has mostly been a war on oil. Airstrikes have pounded oil wells and refineries across ISIS territory, which is also the primary oil-producing part of Syria.

As winter nears prices are soaring, and not just on fuel. Knock-on effects have raised the price of almost everything, including basic food. The prices of grain are no doubt also effected by US airstrikes on grain silos in the north.

Even though the oil-rich east has been lost by the Syrian government to ISIS, much of the oil still finds its way back into Damascus through smuggling. ISIS was doubtless getting a cut from some of that smuggling, but it’s not the only one paying a dear price from the US attacks, and with a lot of its finances coming from taxation and extortion, ISIS is probably much less effected by the US air war than the ordinary Syrian.

TANSTAAFL – eventually, all the evil we perversely spread around the world will come home to roost. Hopefully (but I suspect not) when TSHTF, the events and the reasons for the events are looked at with clear eyes and a desire to face the truth – unlike the hysteria and mass denial that occurred after 9/11.

I think no one will deny that America needs to rethink the direction we are headed before the inevitable event horizon rises and slaps the bejeezus out of us.

I know longer believe that Americans will eventually wake up. Even with fifty millions depending on food stamps and millions who were tossed out of their houses and the response is to cringe. The whole country has Battered Wife Syndrome and is frozen with fear.

I live in a very remote area, and even here folks are running around like chickens with their heads cut off because the "Ebola Nurse" (she was imprisoned in an unheated tent in NJ) has returned home to nearby Fort Kent.

Fear works great for controlling a population, until it turns to outright Panic. When it does, anything can happen. Our Dear Leaders have yet to learn that lesson.

The real voices of terror, lies and cold-blooded murder = KSA USA KKK Israel.
So it was decided by whom that the Syrian Army, battling takfiri thugs and criminals for three years (and largely making mincemeat out of them) suddenly couldn't handle the ISIS onslaught and needed to allow AmeriKan Bully-in-Chief Obongo to bomb for them? And not to mention the same nations who are exporting these thugs to Syria to wage war???
LOL if this isn't the biggest dog and pony show ever. Sure, trust KSA USA KKK Israel at your own risk to only bomb selected parts of your country, to do a fantastic job, AND to totally stop once the enemy is vanquished!
You can't make this stuff up.

ic u conspiracy loving obama hating racists r out and about even on so called legit sites like antiwar. Yes its all his fault. U and those kkk types u rant about have more in common then u will ever admit to.

You have to separate taxation from extortion even when ISIS is doing it? I would think ISIS "taxing", ie extorting, people would allow one to refer to taxation simply as what it is, extortion, but I guess this shows how deep the euphemism indoctrination goes.